Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 101: A poem of mourning and dedicated written on the death of an individual is called Options:
  A) am elegy
  B) an eulogy
  C) a sonnet
  D) an ode.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 102:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Poems that are not written in meter or regular line length are called

  Options:
  A) short verses
  B) rhythmic verses
  C) free verses
  D) irregular verses
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 103:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Periphrasis in poetic diction is marked by

  Options:
  A) circumlocution
  B) irony
  C) proverb
  D) parable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 104: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's Options:
  A) marriage
  B) fgighting
  C) honeymoon
  D) hunting
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 105:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  What is the dominant poetic device used in Christopher Okigbo's 'Hurrah for Thunder?

  Options:
  A) Irony
  B) Symbolism
  C) Parallelism
  D) Rhythm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 106: This question is based on selected poem from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  The end of Give Me The Minstrel's seatseems to suggest that one needs the Options:
  A) support of others
  B) complete command of one's wives
  C) support of one's kinsmen
  D) aid of pots
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 107:

  Another shoal of cars swam past.
  One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
  elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
  a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.

  In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) ants
  C) fish
  D) lampposts
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 108:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A humorous scene, incident or speech in the course of a serious fiction or drama is a

  Options:
  A) play-within-the-play
  B) comic scene
  C) comic relief
  D) tragi-comedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 109:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'o' deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

  Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law And turned that black word....'

  The play is mostly written in

  Options:
  A) free verse
  B) metres
  C) foot
  D) blank verse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 110:

  Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated in an instance is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) parody
  C) parallelism
  D) metonymy
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  The correct answer is D .